Thursday, August 14, 2014

Helping Hands Needed

A reader sent me a lovely email about this blog and about the community that has grown up around it. She is a mother of two children, one a young girl with Down Syndrome and the other a teenager with significant and crippling anxiety and depression. I asked her permission to post her question here, because I just have a feeling that someone out there reading might be able to help her. If you can answer, please leave a comment or email me your contact information. If you yourself write about these issues, please let us know! My email is elsophieATgmailDOTcom.

Do you know of any blogs written by moms, or dads, of teens with major depression/anxiety? I've been looking for a really insightful one, with really good writing. Thank you so much.

I love what http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com has to say about depression. Not sure what's there re anxiety disorder, but she is generally brilliant. Here's the depression post: There's a part 2 also. http://hyperboleandahalf.blogspot.com/2011/10/adventures-in-depression.html

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I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way, too.

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I hope you light up that sparkle suit, fire up that jet pack that I suggest you wear, and explode through the ceiling of the room, raining just a bit of debris upon their illustrious heads. (advice to me before giving a presentation about cannabis medicine to a room full of neurologists)

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"I pray that I ever be weavingAn intellectual tune,But weaving it out of threadsFrom the distaff of the moon.

Wisdom and dreams are one,For dreams are the flowers ablow,And Wisdom the fruit of the garden:God planted him long ago."

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